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Irish_Dem

(46,468 posts)
3. Quite a few western democracy leaders took bribes from Putin.
Sat Mar 5, 2022, 02:24 PM
Mar 2022

A great deal of money was given to them by the Russians.

erronis

(15,174 posts)
10. the rot from the kremlin infected many countries in around the same time.
Sat Mar 5, 2022, 04:56 PM
Mar 2022

trump, bojo, bolsanaro, modi, orban. Not a coincidence.

erronis

(15,174 posts)
9. Great video. I don't know who was narrator but seemed to be a good mix of Rob't Reich and Navalny.
Sat Mar 5, 2022, 04:55 PM
Mar 2022

Interesting way to drive around the areas and narrate the corruption.

Please keep these up.

FakeNoose

(32,568 posts)
11. These shell companies operate exactly the same way in the US
Sat Mar 5, 2022, 04:58 PM
Mar 2022

It's not just happening in London, even though this guy explains it very well. Chump has been laundering Russian money in the US for over 30 years for the oligarchs. He and Michael Cohen have shown them how to set up the shell companies with generic names like "ABC Holding Company" or something similar. This is how they pay for expensive condos, yachts, private jets, etc. with their stolen wealth.

The sanctions are meant to stop this, but now the difficulty is identifying which shell companies are in fact owned by Russian oligarchs. It's a huge task now because we (and the British) were looking the other way for so long.

blue-wave

(4,344 posts)
13. Well if the figures in this graph
Sat Mar 5, 2022, 05:04 PM
Mar 2022

(see tweet below) are correct, that explains why the UK wanted out of the EU.


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